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Watcha Doin'? 2024
Happy new year guys! I hope you all had an enjoyable evening. I had a quiet one. Played a board game I got for christmas and watched half a film and I cooked some tasty food. Enjoyed it with my boyfriend. We did wait up for midnight but asleep by half past lol. The wrather has been so wet, this morning was the first bit of dry weather since boxing day so we wrnt for a short walk. It's raining again now though.
Happy New Year!! We also had a quiet evening surprisingly. They had a dance here, but my hubby's knee was really hurting so we didn't go. It worked out for me as I spent the time reading. By 10pm everyone was back in their rooms getting ready for bed. lol
Happy new year, everyone! We also had a quite, nice evening. Now I'm having my first coffee of the year, so it is kind of a magical moment. Lol.
Happy New Year everyone. I had supper out with a friend and then it was a quiet evening after that. The City held fireworks every hour on the hour starting at 7:00 till midnight. I think they may have had them at different locations. Grace is afraid of loud noises (fireworks, thunder, vacuum cleaner), so she hid out in the basement.
We are going to Medieval Times today. There is a show (jousting, etc) and a dinner. This is my first time going to something like this. It should be interesting.
That sounds like fun Kristie. Enjoy!
Thanks, Janice. It was a fun time. :) They put on a great show.
Happy New Year everyone! We also had a quiet New Year's Eve with some friends and then went to bed around midnight.Enjoy your trip, Kristie. It sounds interesting. There used to be something similar here also years ago.
Happy New Year! It was a quiet night at our house also. My entire family came down with the flu the day after Christmas, so it's actually been a quiet week (except for the coughing). Everyone is on the mend and looking forward to 2024.
Has goodreads stopped us updating what page we are on in a book or is it a temporary glitch? I was able to do it last week. I wonder if they've moved it. Anyone else having an issue?
I had the same issue today, but I am sure it was working a couple of days ago. Actually, I can do it in the app, but it won't show in the webpage.
No update possible on the web page but it still works on the app.
I usually avoid the app but might have to install it on my phone. Thanks guys. Glad I'm not going mad lol
Yeah! My progress bars just came back.
It's been driving me crazy for a couple of days, Sarah. It seemed to disappear on NYE when I was trying to work out how long I had to go on my very last read for the annual challenge!
Back for me this morning too.
I can update in the app, but not on-line.
Sarah wrote: "Has goodreads stopped us updating what page we are on in a book or is it a temporary glitch? I was able to do it last week. I wonder if they've moved it. Anyone else having an issue?"Yes. I had a couple of days where I couldn't update at all, no progress or ability to mark as completed. I had to go to the book's main page and mark it as read by reviewing. It is back for me today.
Rusalka wrote: "... It seemed to disappear on NYE when I was trying to work out how long I had to go on my very last read for the annual challenge! ..."This is about when it went out for me too! I was thinking I might have to report my final reads without marking them as read.
I'm calling it the New Years glitch. It always seems that GRs is slow and glitchy on NY's Day. It was down more than not yesterday. I kept getting "Oops, something went wrong...."
It's back for me too. Yes, i kept getting that message too yesterday, Janice!
Happy New Year everyone :)Seems like for once I didn't get a glitch.
Yeah, and my search of discussion threads haven't worked for 3 days either. /sighI'm going to be honest, the past couple of days have had me exploring StoryGraph a bit as their stats section for your yearly reading is incredible. And we all know I hate Amazon.
I was getting that message too. It was so frustrating.
Storygraph seems less social to me, though I've not really given it a chance yet. I've hardly looked at it except to join a challenge one of my book clubs does.
Kristie wrote: "Storygraph seems less social to me"That is actually my main problem. I have a LibraryThing account that I used for years at the same time I used GR, but the social part doesn't really exists as in GR. I haven't logged into my account in ages, so it might be better now. It is hard to move somewhere else after 10 years in GR and in a couple of groups I'm active in, including YLTO. Other than that, GR can be very annoying, and I just can't believe Amazon can't make it work better. It is not a couple of amateur friends doing an app, it is Amazon. I'm sure they are getting a lot of book purchases thanks to GR, why can't they pay more attention to it and make an effort to solve its problems instead of just changing cosmetic details? It drives me crazy. But at the same time I don't think I will leave it. It's like being in a toxic relationship. Lol.
I haven't looked at the social side yet. I was more sucked in by the stats... I can't say no to pretty graphs. Very basic here lol
I just remembered I used to have also an account in LeafMarks and in BookLikes, but I don't even know if those platforms still exist. The problem was also the social part. I just created an account in Storygraph to take a look.
Sandra wrote: " It drives me crazy. But at the same time I don't think I will leave it. It's like being in a toxic relationship. Lol.100% agree.
I am not going anywhere, particularly with us all here - talk about social!!
But goodreads does have some massive issues, and does play on our dependency. It really is sometimes a very one way, not so healthy relationship. So new year, new me, just poking around while there are major issues ;)
... that sounded a lot dirtier than I meant...
I was on BookLikes, but I didn't like it as much so stopped duplicating the tracking of my books. You all are family to me, so I'd hate to see a mass migration.
I was just able to update my reading progress here in the online site.I am NOT going to look at Storygraph, even if I AM curious.
I do not need another app or place to log into.
I better log out and go home and read my book now....
Rusalka wrote: "I haven't looked at the social side yet. I was more sucked in by the stats... I can't say no to pretty graphs. Very basic here lol"I'm using Storygraph for about 1.5 years now but also just for the awesome stats. But I needed to come back to Goodreads because I missed this group.
No mass migration at all. I just mentioned it in case other people like stats. I shall see what is generated and whether it is worth it. Socially seems lacking and not to mention 12 hours offline is not great.But why I was thinking about stats, I realised I have no way to really track my Around the World reading challenge information and have spent 3 days building a spreadsheet and populating it.
I joined Goodreads in 2011 and this was the first challenge I encountered. I got actually involved in mid 2012, and a lovely couple of members of that challenge, Judy and Janice, invited us all to participate in a 24 hour Toppler in their other group which was themed around the Olympics that were happening. Needless to say, the rest was history.
But I haven't had a good way to track my reading around the world (excluding UK, USA, and Aus) until now. So as of today:
Reading from 2012 to 2023
• 103 countries read out of 197 (this is including the three above)
• +6 areas that are not countries but distinctive (Greenland, Faroe Islands, Hawaii, Alaska, Guernsey, Curacao)
• 218 books read total across the world in the 11 years
• Top read countries: Norway - 9, Sweden - 9, China - 7, Iceland - 7, Ireland - 7
• Average of 19 books from around the world each year.
Its good to see your stats Rusalka. I tried the around the world challenge for a while but found it tricky when i was mainly reading sci fi and fantasy so gave up. I might have to redress the balance, I do enjoy real world stuff too.
Those are impressive stats, Rus!I really love the mood and genre stats and I create quarterly and yearly stats in a notebook out of those stats.
Wow, I love your stats Rus! I checked out Storygraph about 3 years ago and imported all my books into it. I really liked the book suggestions feature (can't remember what they called it) and the fact that, unlike Amazon, it came up with books from independent publishers. Problem was, when I went looking for audio versions, many didn't exist, which I found frustrating. As you've all mentioned, the lack of a social side is the biggest downside for me. What's I love seeing what my friends are reading, or wanting to read and chatting with bookish people. So, even though I'm no amazon fan, and they treat us so badly (considering we're their customer base) we have no choice for now.Speaking of things we don't like about Amazon, do you all remember a few years ago we could play the Audible sample from GR? Now we have to Audible to play it. What's going on there? They're both Amazon!
To be clear, those stats are from me and a spreadsheet. No other website.
I like stats so I wanted to check storygraph. As I said I opened an account but still didn't transfer my GR data there, so I can't see much at this point. I decided to wait until the weekend because I guess it will be like a rabbit hole...Janice, I agree with Rusalka. There is no way I'm leaving GR at this point because its people is really part of my life. Catalogs, lists, and stats can be found in other places, but the community is what doesn't existe anywhere else. I will swear every time GR does something stupid, though. :)
Great stats, Rus! I love stuff like that, but have no interest in going back over my 12 or so years of GR info to add it into a spreadsheet. It would just be so time consuming. I've often wished we had more information here in an easy to find way. When books are entered, there is the option for adding setting, characters, etc, but most books don't include that info. I'd love to be able to just search for books set in a certain spot or key words or something, but there really isn't a good option for it here. Lists helps sometimes, but isn't really dependable.
Rusalka wrote: "But I haven't had a good way to track my reading around the world (excluding UK, USA, and Aus) until now"My way is coloring maps but I am tracking only the 1st book i read since I started traking "geographically".
I tried the Around the World challenge - by way of Australia, but I have fallen off too! I have not stuck to it for a long time, mostly with my frustration at my library not having books available. I have a huge list of books that I want to read and a shelf here on GR that may not be current.
Margo wrote: "Speaking of things we don't like about Amazon, do you all remember a few years ago we could play the Audible sample from GR? Now we have to Audible to play it. What's going on there? They're both Amazon..."I was just listening to an audiobook sample from the Amazon page. It's the first time I've seen the option. Maybe Amazon UK gave the feature to Amazon CA. Thank you. LOL!
Sandra wrote: "I like stats so I wanted to check storygraph. As I said I opened an account but still didn't transfer my GR data there, so I can't see much at this point. I decided to wait until the weekend becaus..."That's reassuring, Sandra. I lost a number of friends who left GR over that censuring issue a number of years back. You couldn't have threads like "Authors Behaving Badly". I think there was more to it, but I don't remember all the issues.
Kristie wrote: "Great stats, Rus! I love stuff like that, but have no interest in going back over my 12 or so years of GR info to add it into a spreadsheet. It would just be so time consuming. I've often wished ..."
I've had to bookmark useful pages like Places. It's unfortunate that GR doesn't have a Site Map.
Oh, that is a useful page, Janice!
Janice wrote: "Margo wrote: "Speaking of things we don't like about Amazon, do you all remember a few years ago we could play the Audible sample from GR? Now we have to Audible to play it. What's going on there? ..."Why you're welcome Janice, happy christmas lol
I was really positive for 2024. My 2023 ended horribly and I was being the big person and just moving on. 2024 is heading in the same direction and at this point, can just get in the bin. Urrrrghhhh!
Editing as I realised this was an annoying vaguebook post.
My stepfather is not doing great. He's been at home over a week and just got taken off IV antibiotics. But has massive edema (fluid build up issues) in his body. On his lungs and heart, as well as just the bits of him. About 20 kg worth of fluid. Just not good.
My half brother - whom I have not met and is estranged from the whole family, but is a concept in my mind as a possible connection - he passed away on the 3rd in a car accident. I have written a whole heap of comments, and deleted, that do not translate to a non-Aussie audience.
I didn't know him. I wish I did. My family is complicated but he was a possibility. And he was pretty young (55) so there was time. I just feel so conflicted to what I should have done now the possibility is gone.
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